Re: [patch] TCP throughput after 2.2.17-pre1

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

   Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:35:10 +1000
   From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>

   The problem is caused by this patch:

The change aparently came from Alexey to cure some
deadlock issues.

I just noticed the change today, and I also am skeptical
about it's correctness.

It I understand correctly, it's the simple issue about the
lack of distinction between a socket buffer allocation failing
because of going over the socket limits or a real kmalloc failure
of some sort.

Someone needs to sort this out correctly and I'd like to ask
Alan to back this out until a better fix is found.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx